Shotlist

No synopsis in Educational Film Guide. One copy (the one transferred for IA project) was prod. by Bay State Film Productions and runs 17:01 (the other version is said to run 22:00). It has NMT but bears no evidence of being sponsored by Texaco. Re-xfer another copy.
Ken Smith sez: This wonderfully-titled film won top prize at the 1949 World Poultry Congress in Copenhagen, and was ostensibly created to show poultry farmers the progress made in a three-year program to "build a better chicken." But interspersed with the facts and figures are a suspiciously large number of plugs for "quality petroleum products." Hmmm. Watch for the scene where the highly-trained poultry workers "sex the chicks."
00:40
Man feeds chickens. Chickens eating from trough.
1:14
Chickens being packed into crates. Farm workers
01:34
CU 3 eggs frying in pan.
01:44
CU chicken in roaster being basted.
02:00
Hands turn pages of chicken brochure
02:30
Large chicken ranch
02:40
Woman handling lots of eggs in incubator. Man handles many trays of eggs.
04:00
Cut away of chicken embryo forming in the egg shell.
04:40
Chick hatching from egg
05:50
Lots of baby chicks in trays
06:00
Man sexes baby chicks
07:00
Boxes of baby chicks being loaded into trucks.
07:30
Yellow poultry trucks
07:50
Two little children playing with baby chicks.
09:00
Free range chickens. Many chickens.
12:00
CU hand doing arithmetic on lined tablet. Fractions and equations.
13:00
Egg gathering, baskets of eggs.
14:50
Comparison shot (labeled) of: "The Chicken of Today" vs. "The Chicken of Tomorrow" raw and cooked (very good shots).
15:30
Knife and fork carving chicken
16:50
CU chicken auctioneer talking fast. Chicken auction (good sound).
17:30
Texaco gas station
17:50
Poultry trucks.
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